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Two years and 25 games have come and gone since the "Mugging in Miami," but that doesn't mean that Clemson's players have forgotten the 2012 Orange Bowl.

"You're not going to forget anything like that," junior safety Robert Smith said.

It's difficult to completely purge a 70-33 defeat, which is what West Virginia administered on Jan. 4, 2012, but such a cleansing could be possible a couple of weeks from now when the Tigers get a second chance to right an Orange Bowl wrong when they battle Ohio State in the 2014 Orange Bowl on Jan. 3. ...